https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann … so long. Jesus we owe so much to you. So god damn much. You’re a part of my brain, thank you, you’re missed and loved. So much.pic.twitter.com/8SFLi9uEP3
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I got it as “here’s a musty old thing,” but I saw it as a leap of creativity in a confusing world, and I empathized because that’s what us poor grad students felt like
I just love representation theory and think that the fact that the eightfold way just pops out of saying asymptotic states need to be color singlets is just wonderful
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Exactly. And Gell-Mann was making it up as he went. He didn’t have a bunch of geometers showing him new representations. Amazing as fuck!
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Or something like that.. I can’t remember who said it
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